Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-25

told me to get 500. and if couldn't get that
take VS.. and if couldn't get that take $780,
, ,Lhausnter. When we will make up our minds
what Is right and stand by the right, men who
| want votes will want ours
Let me COLL your attention to the difference
between things before the war and to-day The
truth is, that the liquor business that we arc
nghtlng today is a thing Of recent origin The
FROG SHOP OF that time was the drug store, or
other business. The liquor business is the only
business where bad character is better than
GOOD one Which gsog.shops are the better
patfonlzed? Is it not u fact that q man who
gets reputation as bad man. especially as q
fghter--such as Sullivan Ryan and sheedy-
gets the trade? Then it is a business that does
o1her business man must BIO a business man.
understanding bookkeeping and every branch
Of o.. complex trade in order to be successful.
but the liquor business is q cash one While
frequently the grocer has to trust and charge,
IN order to have the customers pay cash for
liquor all liquor dealer needs to know is to:
pass out the bottle, make change SO as not!
to TO cheat himself and have strength to
have in out this an eons nyuy
and they are there simply to make money. No
ma ever went into it as a philanthropist.
not seized upon by the liquor.dealers Of this
country to lead down boys. They have
gilded saloons with mirrors, a center table with
and even advertise for girls for easy, lucrative
positions, and hire them Mattresses in low
neck dresses te entice our country lads who 20
into the city They have long ago learned what
John Morrissey, that great statesman, learned,
when he introduced O bill preventing gambling
IN IN New York State. Whom some of the gam
pliers went to him and said, John, you will ruin
our business, he said: Can't you see that the
people demand a law Of this kind and will have
it, We will ii give them the law and We win
III the hands OF it's enemies never was and never
would be enforced Surprising at the end of
me war you had elected jeff Davis President.
orvt,,n $hntr
construction would have been carried through
by him2
"To-day, il could pass prohibition law in
me state g. OF Massachusetts and could not put
not DO it.. Because people would say that the
law is failure, when it would not be due to
to enforce the law and did not. The naked
sword of justice in the hands of a determined
party is the only instrument that will bring
around our desired result My Republican
trends, what was your argument from 1870 to
rs? It was, Keep us in power who made the
law law II you want it enforced. We went all over
women got big petition asking that the people
might have q chance to express q will on
TINS question that concerned only them
ton. But up at the State House they said
We give you leave to take that petition out
doors The Republican party cries out against
did not the Republican party Of Michigan in
vestigate the frauds of that State, where 1900
votes were cast against the constitutional
amendment in O county where there were only
l,722 men, women, and children?
:. My friends, you have won the last Constitu-
to- tonni victory you viii until you have broken
country. I stand here tonight to say that SO
great is the organized liquor interest of this
country that it's a political crime for an honest
Christian man to be put in nomination. WAS
stamping in the State Of Ohio once for Meth
odist as Governor, and there was another Meth
odist running as a candidate for Governor Z
a md ho oiA Mvt
against me-? I said. you are member Of
Yes 1 said, I want you to understand that
said, What do you mean?' said, You will
full If you will write letter stating that
you will enforce the Sunday law Ill
leave the State He said, Finch can not 90
anything politically that can't be religiously
Once, in q convention, as chairman of delega-
tion, offered a resolution IN favor of the en-
member moved that be expelled. They did
not turn me out but they threw out my resolu-
ton Then said that would do all 1 could to
candidate an intimate friend of mine, and said,
Surely, Finch, you will not go back on the
party bat I said. Yes, I'll go back on any
party that gets between me and my conscience
There are lot of men that will do dirty polit-
ical work and mean tricks for their party that
as Christians they ought not to do.
1T is not pleasant to sever party ties and
have your friends turned to enemies. But can
we get anything within the old parties? If T
had believed that we could, would have staid
when they make them. The Democratic dog
and Republican dog, are after the bone Of
offices. What have they done? Why don't
dog bark for free trade and he would be without
his tail. He has temperance leg in Georgia
and u rum one in Massachusetts. What holds
him together? His skin, labeled Hate to the
Republican party and if he should swallow q
good;sized principle he would. fall to pieces.
a free-trade tail, prohibition leg in Iowa and a
whisky one in Illinois. And they stand with
their hind legs to the future, and they love
change ends for anything We honor r'I them en-
both for the good they have done. We have no
bitter words for these old parties We simply
worked as q machinist until the muscles be-
came contracted SO that he could not perform
any longer his work properly. So 1 said:
let US look after the business. Did this in any
way imply that 1 did not appreciate what
father had done?
II believe that the great mass of the Repub-
licans of this State believed in the sincerity Of
the prohibition plank last year. They hitched
their old machine and tried to lift it, but no;
it Went up and up and up, and then the GENTLE
men from Somerville stuck bottle of beer in
the cogs and the machine broke. In Congress-
they hitched on the Democratic machine to the
tariff reform and the thing went up and up and
up, till Sam Randall put in an iron bar ard the
thing stopped.
1.-The party that cannot make its men vote
and keep its promises is no party at all. It was
the pledge Of the Republican party of this
State to carry through the prohibition amend
ment. Why did they not call caucus and
compel it's passage? You say they could not.
Then their old machine is worn out A politi-
cal party is q company of people joined to-
gether to carry through their pledges. man
who voted against the amendment is in just as
good standing as ever. Have you heard OF any
one OF them being kicked out? No. She party
is SO weak that it can't kick them out. Look at
the head OF their tickets temperance man for
Governor, q whisky man for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. II the Republican party was honest.
why did it not pass a prohibition law? 1t
surely had votes enough for that,
"A Democratic politician said to me with an
oath: The trouble with you Prohibition fellows
is. you are getting the boys And it is so. We
are getting the boys. Prohibitory clubs are
being formed in all the colleges. and they are
meeting with great success. It was remarked
ut the convention at Syracuse that one half the
men were under IS. You can't enthuse the
boys over dry bones, but you can enthuse them
over to-day; and that is what you must do.
I'm not going to impeach the old parti ca
Good men IRE in the wagon, but they don't
hol the reins l have heard that once there
was Il man SO mean that he lost all his friends,
and when he came to die he left his money to
charitable association providing they
would furnish the mourners. So they hired
three lrshmen to follow the hearse with heads
bowed and not lift them. Going through the
city of them said, Mike, 1 smell
something's I'm going to look up' The
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